Heroes of Audio Land

Questions and Answers

What do you use to create your comics?

The strips are drawn by hand on normal ink jet printer paper with a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. More recent strips I've started using heavier Bristol paper. They are inked with anything from a ball point pen, various Sharpies, or any other water-fast black pen I can find.

All of my drawings are done on a beat up brown clipboard that I got in the mid 1980s. If only that clipboard could talk, the stories it would tell would make me very wealthy. Alas.

I’m not really impressed with your drawing style. Why do you bother?

I look at some of the early Heroes of Audio Land strips and I see how bad they are. Then I look at the later color strips and I see some improvement. That makes me happy. I draw to make myself happy. Hopefully something makes you happy too.

When you get better at drawing will you re-draw the original HOA stories?

Maybe. I would like to. But I would also like to keep updating the current story and that has priority.

Do you plan on publishing your stories in print?

I have been requested several times to print the story. My plan right now is to wait at least until late summer 2007 before I begin work on that project.

I understand some of your characters were created by other people. Do you take submissions?

I do, but usually in trade for something else. Email me with a proposition. As a side note, all of the characters so far have been created by me, Brian P., and Josh S (who only created Skinhead, the slacker!)

I want to send you fan art/guest strips/or exchange links. Do you do that?

Absolutely! Please! I will gladly post your fan stuff and would love to trade links!

Do you do commissions?

Well, I’m up for anything usually. I will gladly do things to get more exposure for the comic or to make a couple extra bucks. That said, you HAVE seen how well I draw, right? Okay. Just so that’s clear! J

Why doesn’t Audio Babe wear a mask? All of the other heroes do.

I originally drew her with a mask and hated it. It was removed for Book Three for the simple reason that I didn’t want to draw it. I thought she was prettier without it. She figured that she was one of only a handful of humans in Audio Land and really didn’t have much of a secret identity. Audio Man wears one because he thinks it is cool. Audio Bear wears one even though his identity is public knowledge as a sign of his victory in the Audio Land Champion Contest.

Why does Audio Bear wear boxing gloves? Does he have fingers?

All will soon be revealed. I’ve wondered myself for a long time, since I don’t remember why I originally drew them that way. But now I know there is a very good reason that I think is just awesome. Stay tuned.

What are those black things on the side of Audio Man’s head?

Those are headphones. The back story on the cast page explains that he was severely injured when he arrived through the Audio Shield. The Xtrapulon doctors were able to repair his brain and modulate his brain waves using the headphone implants. They are also the source of his power.

What is the difference between Audio Land and Xtrapulon?

The animal humanoids are aliens from the planet Xtrapulon who came to Earth a few generations ago (Audio Bear is a third generation, Cuddles is a fourth generation) on a space ship. They colonized an island in the Bermuda Triangle that they named Audio Land, after the powerful electro-sonic shield that protects it. Audio Land is an active colony, sending information, trade goods, and raw materials back to Xtrapulon every few years. They are quite far apart so regular ship contact is rare and is always initiated by the home planet since the ship that brought the colony crashed on their original arrival and parts are still on order.

Where did Heroes of Audio Land come from?

Way back in 1989 (I believe) Anacortes High School put on a United Nations simulation for three days. People got to be “ambassadors” to the UN member nations, the Freshmen got to be pages and deliver notes between the delegates, etc.. It was all great fun. I had done it the previous two years while I was in school and I returned to help run the sound booth. The UN was held on the gym floor and only official delegates and pages were allowed to be on the floor. To accommodate non-delegates, the teaching staff represented the People’s Democratic Republican Kingdom of Lower Slobovia and the sound booth represented Audio Land. My friend (who now goes by the moniker of Captain Slinky) was the ambassador from the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He wrote me a note and called me Audio Man. I wrote back that I wasn’t Audio Man, this was! I drew the first image of our goofy hero. He started drawing villains and we drove the pages ragged. Some of the original drawings are floating around the archive for your viewing pleasure.

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